Grove 2 coming soon

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I’ve been working on the next version of Grove for a few months now. My task list kept collecting things I really liked but couldn’t tie to one big topic, the way the free beds or the native apps were. So I gathered it all under the working title “Magic”.

For one of the biggest new features, the Garden Fairy, I had to dig deep into the plant data again. That meant I didn’t see the new version myself for a month or two. When I opened it up again the other day, I thought: “Really magic! This finally needs to go out!”

I want to release version 2 the week after next, so the week of 21/09/2026. Here’s a preview of what’s coming.

Garden Fairy

• She fills empty spots in the bed, plans preceding and following crops or fills a whole bed.
• Takes companion planting, crop rotation, plant spacing and planting times into account.
• For vegetables and green manure.
• For a single bed, selected beds or your whole garden.
• She creates proposals that you can change, accept or discard.

Wishlist

• Put together a list of the plants you want to grow.
• The number of plants already planned is counted and shown.
• Filter plants by your wishlist and by what you have not planned yet.

Garden Plan and Bed Overview

• The beds can be put together into a graphical garden plan.
• In the existing overview every bed gets a preview image.
• You can set the order of the beds in the list yourself.

Bed Plan

• Free beds can now have individual shapes, for example raised beds in a U shape.
• Changes to one planting can be applied to all plantings of that plant in the bed.
• Bed printout: short plant profiles with the most important information about the plants in the bed.
• The ‘Edit bed’ dialog lets you delete all plantings of a bed at once.
• Free bed: you can now also set the size and position of a planting using input fields.
• Free bed: you can edit a planting by clicking the plant in the month selection.
• The bed plan is even faster. It was never slow, but on older devices every optimisation helps.

Plants and Plant Knowledge

• Perennial plants: plants that stay in the same spot for several years.
• New plant data: main crop/companion crop, green manure properties and frost resistance.
• Cross tables for companion planting and crop rotation: well-known analogue formats, implemented in a modern way. You open them from the plant list.
• Crop rotation warnings for row companion planting according to Gertrud Franck and Familie Langerhorst.
• Planting times display: in the details of a plant you can switch to the single view.
• Planting times display: move the mouse or your finger over the planting times to see sowing and harvest dates.

Filters

• Smart filters: in the plant list of the beds grove suggests matching filters.
• New filters for main crop/companion crop according to Schwester C. Weinrich.
• New filter ‘Good predecessors’.
• New filters for the wishlist.

Harvest Preview

• Better scrolling on small screens: months and categories stay visible.
• The beds where the plants grow can be opened directly.

Tasks

• Tasks can now be printed as a list.
• The filters are kept when you open a bed in between.
• You can filter for tasks without a bed.
• You can now move tasks from one week to another via drag & drop.
• You can also move all open tasks of a week via drag & drop.

App and Account

• Offline reading mode within the app.
• Sign in with Apple and Google.
• The start of the year change now shows more information.

Changed Calculations

• The harvest period is now calculated from more data (culture duration and standing duration per planting time). The results can differ from the previous ones.
• The distance calculation for predecessors and successors uses new values and no longer depends on the size of the plant.